Grace Kelly made eleven movies before becoming Princess of Monaco, beginning with a bit part in Fourteen Hours (1951) and ending with High Society (1956).
Born in Philadelphia, Kelly (1928-82) married Prince Rainier III of Monaco in 1956.
Mildred Pierce was a waitress who bought an eatery that she built into a chain of restaurants.
Pia Zadora was born in Forest Hills, New York, in 1954. It is her real name.
Silent film star Francis X. Bushman (1883-1966) was known as “The Handsomest Man in the World”.
Marlene Dietrich said about the departed Orson Welles at the end of Touch of Evil (1958), “He was some kind of man. What does it matter what you say about someone?”
Margo Channing was the name of Bette Davis’s character in All About Eve (1950). Anne Baxter played her young fan and rival Eve Harrington.
Gregg Toland was the cinematographer on Citizen Kane (1941), who served in the same role on such classics as The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).